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Title: PEARCE INSTITUTE

Reference number: 5099

Date: 1954

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.25 mins

Description: The Pearce Institute in Govan, a focal point for the Church's work in the midst of a shipbuilding community. Features footage of the men leaving the shipyard after a day's work, children in school and tenement conditions. This film emphasises the wide range of classes attended by people of different ages and abilities, including cookery, boxing, handicrafts for the blind, also Boys Brigade and Girls Guildry companies.

Also known under working title [PEOPLE'S SERVICE - LIVING CENTRE]

Shotlist: REEL I
Hopper passing Fairfield's of Govan (Shipyard) going downstream (0.09) gvs Harland (& Wolff?) cranes as seen from ground level and low angle (0.19) gvs men leaving Fairfield's yard, shot of McConnachie leaving and lighting his cigarette (0.44) Harland's cranes as seen from Pearce Institute roof (1.03) Mrs Fletcher approaches and enters grocer's shop on Govan street; shot of her exiting butcher's shop (1.23) entering home tenement close (1.29) gvs interior primary school classroom and pan to small boy, Archie McAslan and teacher, Miss Brown (2.00) Miss Brown leaves school and walks along (2.10) l/s Pearce Institute as seen from Govan Road (2.20) high angle shot of church from Pearce Institute roof (2.31) m/s church doors opening (2.46) 250ft

REEL II
gvs ministers leaving church, crossing churchyard and walking towards Pearce Institute (0.29) c/u baby is lifted from pram and gvs mothers arriving at Pearce Institute (0.41) tea urn is unloaded from van parked outside the Pearce Institute (0.51) elderly people arrive at the Institute intercut with shots of different babies being lifted from prams, the final shot tilts up to sign above entrance 'Women's Club' (1.20) ints basketball practise, male group then women playing separately (1.58) gvs cookery lessons, includes shot of young boy learning; teacher tastes his batter and shakes her head (2.25) gvs boys attending an aeroplane modelling class (2.42) gvs handicraft classes, shots of young girls painting and making paper lanterns for Halloween (3.21) gvs boxing lessons (3.39) gvs country dancing class held by the Girl's Guildry (4.03) gvs judo class perform somersaults on canvases spread out in McLeod hall (4.24) Chick Mellon and a dancing class in action, includes c/u metronome and pianist and c/u dancers' feet as they perform intricate steps, and shots of a Saturday night dance; intercut with a brief dramatisation, Chick screws up his courage to ask Madge for a dance (5.38) gvs blind handicraft workers weaving baskets and stools, with a blind tutor Mr Munroe; c/u individual man (6.24) gvs domino players enjoying a game, including blind players (7.23) c/u Boys Brigade Captain, shots of boys removing hats and tracking shot down line of boys as they take part in ceremony (7.53) 710ft

REEL III
pan from church to Wanlock Street (0.23) l/s woman entering tenement close (0.30) Young and McQuater enter close and discuss condition, one man pulls at plaster on wall which crumbles away in his hand (0.51) c/u plaster being chipped from wall (1.05) new plaster is applied (1.42) McConnachie exits close and walks along street (1.56) Mrs Fletcher exits close, walks along street looking into shop windows and enters shop (2.15) elevated shot over school playground with teacher (Miss Brown) arriving (2.40) static shot church from Wanlock Street (2.45) pan from church to cranes at shipyard [v/o last blessing of a church service "Go in Peace"] (3.16) 294ft